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Teen Girl Blog Site Now Popular With Russian Intellectuals

by Terrence O'Brien on December 3, 2007 at 06:08 PM

Live Journal Sold to Russian Business Partner
Some Web sites has as many lives as cats. One of the Web sites that helped launch the blogging craze, Live Journal, has been sold by its American owners Six Apart to Russian business partner SUP. The one-time haven for teenage emo girls has declined in popularity over the last few years, and been replaced by MySpace, Google Blogger, and Yahoo 360, which are at the top of the list of most popular blogging hosts.

But even though its popularity here in the States has waned, Live Journal has gradually become the blogging outlet of choice for Russian intellectuals, who are increasingly looking for ways to break through their government's increased crackdowns on media and free speech. So, naturally, SUP was eager to step in and take this blogging pioneer to its next chapter.

Under its new owners, Live Journal will continue to operate as normal, and will be established as a separate company from SUP.

From Reuters

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